T he Expansion Of The Indonesian Military Bases In West Papua Should Be Limited My early life story, growing up in in the village of West Papua, Indonesia was hard. Because I remember that I could not do any activities freely. I couldn’t even hangout with friends to play soccer, go to the gym, or do some fun things. Not only that but also I had difficulty engaging in my learning process in the school because the Indonesian military posts were everywhere. “Military operations are frequent in West Papua where soldiers and police kill, rape and torture its impunity” (Internationonal, 2019). That quote means the Indonesian government sent the military to West Papua in order to protect the citizens from Papuan rebels known as Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM) or in English Free West Papua organization. However, the feeling of trauma is the deepest distracting thing that West Papuan people are experiencing until now. It seems the purpose of Indonesian government expanding military ...